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Forget the past price - look at the present setup. Technical breakout + deep value + dense 2026 catalyst stack. Use a stop loss below recent lows.

THE TECHNICAL SETUP 

IDK is up approximately 100% year-to-date.

More importantly: this is the first time in years that IDK has crossed and held above its 200-day moving average.

The last time this exact technical structure set up - stock crossing and holding the 200MA - it ran approximately 300% before pulling back.

Why does this matter?

In micro-cap and thinly traded stocks, the 200-day MA cross is the signal that forces algorithmic screeners, technical traders and momentum funds to look at a name for the first time. The fundamentals already existed. The technical breakout is what brings new eyeballs to a tight float. When that happens, price response is disproportionate.

Trade management: Use a stop loss below recent lows. Let the setup play out or cut it cleanly.

Right now you have four things converging simultaneously - which in micro-cap land is rare:

✅ Deep discount to NAV (~67–70%) - the value floor
✅ Dense 2026 catalyst stack - the fundamental trigger
✅ First 200-day MA crossover in years - the technical ignition
✅ Tight float - the amplifier

WHAT IS THREED CAPITAL?

ThreeD Capital Inc. (CSE: IDK, OTCQX: IDKFF) is a publicly listed Canadian permanent capital vehicle - think of it as an actively managed VC "ETF" you can buy in any brokerage account.

Instead of LPs, lockups and 2/20 fees, it's a single ticker giving you exposure to a 51-company portfolio:

• 37 disruptive technology holdings (AI infrastructure, quantum computing, brain-computer interfaces, blockchain payments, smart-city software)
• 14 junior resource holdings (primarily gold exploration and development)

Currently priced as if the underlying portfolio is worth almost nothing.

THE CORE ANOMALY: BUYING $0.27 OF ASSETS FOR ~$0.08

• Reported NAV: $0.27 per share (as of December 31, 2025)
• Current market price: approximately $0.08–$0.115 CAD
• That is a 67–70% discount to NAV — you get close to 3× NAV coverage on every share you buy

The balance sheet backing this is auditable: total assets of ~$25.9M CAD consisting of cash, investments and digital assets.

And NAV is arguably conservative:

• Many private holdings are carried at cost or last financing round - not at any optimistic forward multiple
• The large TDN royalty position (279,413,283 TDN royalties, each fixed at $1 USD by TODAQ Holdings) is not included in reported NAV at all

WHO IS RUNNING THIS

The founder, Chairman and CEO is Sheldon Inwentash - CPA, honorary Doctor of Laws from the University of Toronto.

Track record:

• Built Pinetree Capital from $0.10 to $26.00 per share - a 26,000% return at peak — managing a 393-company portfolio with aggregate market cap exceeding $1 billion
• Three exits above $550M each: Queenston Mining (~$550M), Aurelian Resources (~$1.2B to Kinross Gold), Gold Eagle Mines (~$1.5B to Goldcorp)
• Co-founded NexGen Energy (now multi-billion dollar uranium company)
• Co-founded New Found Gold - one of Canada's most significant gold discoveries of the last decade

He is not a passive allocator. He takes active board-level roles, helps recruit management, introduces strategic partners and leads follow-on rounds.

ThreeD Capital is the distilled version of a playbook that has already generated multiple billion-dollar outcomes.

THE PORTFOLIO: WHAT YOU ACTUALLY OWN

Tech Holdings (the six at inflection points):

🧠 AIML Innovations (CSE: AIML) - AI-powered ECG platform targeting 300M ECGs/year globally. SickKids pilot running, AWS proof-of-concept complete, US sales launch initiated February 2026. Upcoming: Health Canada + FDA clearance enabling paid roll-outs across hospitals and OEMs. This platform is trained to predict cardiac events before they happen.

💸 TODAQ / TAPP (private) - Internet-native payment rails for AI agents and digital content. ~90% cheaper than credit card networks. Oracle Cloud rollout of 10,000 video titles on TAPP rails scheduled Q2 2026. The 279M TDN royalty position at $1 USD each sits entirely outside reported NAV.

🤖 HyperCycle (private) - AI infrastructure with a $1.1B Seoul AI Hub JV anchoring its ecosystem. MOSAIC local AI OS launching — marketed as a system that builds a "synthetic brain" from a user's own data. ThreeD is a founding investor.

⚛️ Dynex (private) - Room-temperature quantum computing. Apollo chip reportedly outperforms D-Wave at ~100× speed with ~90% cost reduction. QaaS (Quantum-as-a-Service) model for recurring revenue. Apollo-10000 moving from reference chip to commercial production in 2026. D-Wave has had a multi-billion dollar market cap — Dynex is accessible only through IDK, inside a sub-$10M CAP vehicle.

🎧 Neurable (private) - Brain-computer interface OS. Validated by US Air Force, US Army and Mayo Clinic. ~$150K MRR, $15M DoD pipeline. Commercial partnerships: HP HyperX, Master & Dynamic, Renpho and Audeze. Revenue trajectory: ~$2M (2024) → $132M (2027E) if deals close.

🏙️ InfinitiiAI (CSE: IAI) - Smart-city / water-infrastructure SaaS. $2.69M CAD revenue FY2025, 96% renewal rate, ten consecutive quarters of growth, 80+ clients including Los Angeles, Toronto and Seattle.

Resource Holdings:

⛏️ Forte Minerals (CSE: CUAU) - 16.31× value creation since 2022 IPO. 19,000 hectares across five properties in Peru. Flagship Alto Ruri: historical 131m @ 2.55 g/t Au, ~15km from Barrick's Pierina Mine. Active drill program underway.

🥇 Sun Valley Minerals (private) - Gold-silver in Uruguay. Initial trenching: 49.4m @ 2.05 g/t Au. 5,000m drill program in progress.

2026: DENSE CATALYST YEAR

Multiple portfolio companies hitting concrete milestones in the same calendar year:

• TODAQ: Oracle Cloud rollout of 10,000 live video titles on TAPP rails - Q2 2026
• Dynex: Apollo-10000 commercial production
• Neurable: 3+ commercialisation deals expected to close, supporting the $2M → $132M revenue ramp
• AIML: Health Canada + FDA clearance progression and US sales network build-out
• HyperCycle: MOSAIC local AI OS launch
• Forte Minerals: Alto Ruri drill results

Any single one of these events could lift NAV. When NAV growth combines with discount compression - those two forces are multiplicative on equity returns.

INSIDER BEHAVIOUR + TIGHT FLOAT

• Management has been buying shares in the open market at the same ~$0.08 price available to retail. Insiders have full knowledge of the pipeline, board discussions, and near-term catalysts - and they are choosing to increase exposure at these levels.
• Tight float: A material portion of shares is held by insiders and long-term holders. When new buying pressure arrives, there are fewer "escape valves." Micro-cap history shows this leads to outsized price moves.
• Transparency initiative: ThreeD launched a YouTube channel in early 2026 with direct CEO interviews for AIML, Neurable, HyperCycle, TODAQ and others - directly attacking the "black box discount" that keeps most closed-end funds permanently cheap.

WHY DOES THE DISCOUNT EXIST?

• Sub-$10M CAD market cap - screens out most institutions
• 51-company portfolio with several private, technical names - complexity = neglect
• CSE + OTCQX listing = outside mainstream US/TSX radar
• Closed-end fund stigma - generic skepticism that may be over-applied here

None of these are fundamental problems. They are structural inefficiencies that patient investors can exploit before catalysts close the gap.

RISKS - BE HONEST

• Illiquid stock - slippage can be high in both directions
• Private valuation risk - a portion of NAV is in illiquid private co's
• 2026 catalyst execution risk - delays in regulatory approvals, technical milestones or drill results would hurt sentiment
• Manager concentration - this is a "back the jockey" bet
• Macro / sector cycles - quantum, AI and junior mining are all sentiment-driven

Size accordingly. Use a stop loss below recent lows. This is speculative micro-cap territory.

TLDR

ThreeD Capital (IDK / IDKFF): up ~100% YTD, just crossed its 200-day MA for the first time in years (last time this happened: +300%), trading at ~0.3× its own NAV — run by the manager who built a 26,000% return at Pinetree - with a portfolio that includes an AI platform that predicts heart attacks, potentially the fastest quantum computer in the world, military-validated brain-computer interfaces, and AI payment rails 90% cheaper than VISA - all hitting commercial milestones simultaneously in 2026.

Stop loss below recent lows. Micro-cap, illiquid, speculative. The asymmetry is real. DYOR.

Compiled from ThreeD Capital's March 2026 research materials, public filings & YouTube channel. Not financial advice.

Every time I see a stock like $SNDK, ARM, DELL, MXL go up nearly 400% in 20 weeks, I tell myself "wait for the pullback." But once the pullback actually happens, I get too scared to pull the trigger because I'm afraid the trend is dead.

How do you guys safely enter a stock that has already had a monster move?

If you have any go-to video guides or specific traders to watch who explain the rules for buying pullbacks on extended growth stocks, please drop them below!

Hey everyone, I'm looking at the MarketSurge chart for Steven Madden Ltd. ($SHOO) and the fundamentals look incredibly weak, yet the stock has more than doubled from its recent lows around $20.00 up to **$**50.

or the experienced swing traders and fundamental analysts here: What is driving this 100% move?

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FLAIR WRITING INDUSTRIES is forming a very large inverted head and shoulders pattern on weekly time frame. Price is taking resistance of the neckline, and IPO day avwap. On the daily chart, there is a very large saucer kind of formation.

Just wondering how would you plan a trade on this setup?

Option A: Anticipate the breakout? Buy early inside the saucer.
Option B: Chase breakout? FOMO enter on Day 2 at the exact absolute peak of the pump
Option C: Wait for the retest? Wait patiently for a few days, only for the stock to gap up 40% without me and never look back.
Option D: None of the above. All of these are stupid ways. I will explain the smart money method in comments.

Down on some DRAM calls…

Hey everyone,

I’m building a closed-beta market intelligence dashboard and I’m trying to get feedback from people who actively follow crypto markets.

I want to be clear upfront: this is not financial advice, not copy trading, not trade execution, and not a “buy/sell signal” service.

The problem I’m trying to solve is more about workflow.

Crypto traders and investors usually have information scattered across a bunch of places:

• exchange/watchlist app
• TradingView or charting tools
• X/Reddit/Discord/Telegram sentiment
• macro news
• BTC/ETH dominance and market structure
• funding/open interest data
• notes or spreadsheets
• alerts that often lack context

I’m trying to build something that organizes market context better, especially around:

• what moved
• why it might be moving
• whether there is a catalyst or just noise
• what risk/context matters
• what would invalidate the setup
• what to review later

The goal is not to tell people what to buy. The goal is to make market research and watchlist tracking cleaner.

A few questions for people here:

1. What crypto market information do you check every day?
2. What makes a dashboard/tool useful vs. just another noisy “signals” product?
3. Do you care more about alerts, watchlist context, funding/open interest, news catalysts, or post-trade review?
4. Would confidence/risk labels be useful if they are explained clearly, or would that make you distrust the tool?
5. What do you currently use to track why a coin/token is on your watchlist?

I’m mostly looking for blunt feedback before inviting more beta users.

Hello. I'm a beginner trader and have been dipping my toes in day and swing trading over the past month. The first week was a disaster naturally but over the next few weeks I got to a point where I was very happy with my profitability rate (on average 60% of trades were green and I was up 3.8% on my portfolio). At this point I feel pretty confident I can start experimenting with larger investments to further fine tune my strategy and thesis.

But I've had the most trouble with finding companies to invest in so far. I currently use finviz as well ass r/wallstreetbets weekly earnings calendar, news on sites like investing.com, investopedia.com etc, sources from google news, but it all feels so jumbled and disorganized. I feel like casting a hook for a sardine in the middle of the ocean if that makes sense.

My strategy specifically focused around "buying the dip", finding companies with RSI below 30 and high volume etc. I sometimes spend 4 hours a day screening companies, reading articles and earnings reports and at the end of the day maybe end up with one candidate or none at all for that day before market open. I'd like to make this process more efficient so thought I'd ask here.
Traders how does your workflow look like when headhunting or doing research?

Caught an interesting imbalance setup on NRЕDF on the 5-minute.

From a pure tape / structure perspective, this is the kind of chart I pay attention to because price looks like it is trying to reclaim an inefficiency zone rather than just randomly bouncing.

What I’m seeing:

• Current area is around $1.54
• There is a visible imbalance / fair value gap zone sitting roughly between $1.55 and $1.63
• If price can start accepting back into that zone, the first real magnet is around $1.60
• Above that, the upper part of the imbalance around $1.62–$1.63 becomes the next area price may want to test
• If that gets cleared, the next logical upside levels on my chart are around $1.66 and then $1.68

Why I like it:

This setup is interesting because the chart already showed a sharp move that left behind an inefficient area. In my playbook, those zones often act like magnets when price begins to rotate back into them.

If it reclaims imbalance level, then the roadmap starts to make sense:

Reclaim lower edge of the zone

Push into $1.60

Work through $1.62–$1.63

Potential extension toward $1.66

Stretch target near $1.68

So a straightforward read:

NRЕDF has an inefficiency above price, and if buyers can keep pressing, that imbalance can become the path higher.

This is the kind of structure I look for when I want a clean technical thesis with defined levels.

Key levels I’m watching:

$1.55 = lower reclaim area

$1.60 = first target / mid-zone level

$1.62–$1.63 = upper imbalance area

$1.66 = next resistance

$1.68 = stretch target

Not financial advice